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Faculties removed for Lansing priest after report of underage Grindr encounter

A priest in Michigan has had his faculties removed after a report that he engaged in sexual activity with a 16-year-old he met on the hookup app.

Michelle La Rosa
Oct 13, 2022
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Faculties removed for Lansing priest after report of underage Grindr encounter

A priest in the Diocese of Lansing has had his faculties removed after a report that he engaged in sexual activity with a 16-year-old boy whom he met on the hookup app Grindr.

An Oct. 13 statement from the diocese said Fr. Shaun Lowery is seeking laicization after resigning as pastor of Saint Mary Magdalen this spring.

Lowery in 2009 was ordained a priest…

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